Leatherface, a dinner table and almost no blood on screen; the horror film that feels like a documentary.
Zombies in a shopping mall; Romero's consumerism satire with the gore of Tom Savini.
Mel Brooks in black and white with Gene Wilder; "Puttin' on the Ritz".
Whale's camp, sad and better sequel, with the monster learning to speak.
Boris Karloff's flat-headed monster, the first of the Universal horrors.
German Expressionism in painted shadows: a somnambulist, a fairground and the first twist ending.
Murnau's unauthorised Dracula, with Max Schreck's rat-faced count climbing the stairs in shadow.
Young scavengers board a derelict station between the first two films, and find what is on it.
A colony ship lands on a paradise planet where David has been busy.
Fincher's grim debut: Ripley crash-lands on a prison planet with one alien and no weapons.
Ripley cloned two hundred years on, in a Joss Whedon script shot by Jeunet.
Jordan Peele's horror film about a weekend at the white girlfriend's parents.
Coppola's operatic, entirely in-camera vampire film.
The film that invented the summer blockbuster, mostly by hiding the shark.
Macbeth relocated to feudal Japan, ending in a storm of arrows.
Watch David Lynch's surreal psychological horror film Inland Empire (2006), known for its experimental narrative and digital video aesthetic.
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